The ALPPS procedure as a novel "liver-first" approach in treating liver metastases of colon cancer: The first experience in Greek Cypriot area

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Background: Despite recent advances in multimodality and multidisciplinary treatment of colorectal liver metastases, many patients suffer from extensive bilobar disease, which prevents the performance of a single procedure due to an insufficient future liver remnant (FLR). We present a novel indication for associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy (ALPPS) as a "liver-first" approach when inadequate FLR was faced preoperatively, in a patient with extensive bilobar liver metastatic disease of colon cancer origin. Case presentation: A 51-year-old lady was referred to our center due to a stage IV colon cancer with extensive bilobar liver disease and synchronous colon obstruction. During the multidisciplinary tumor board, it was recommended to proceed first in a palliative loop colostomy (at the level of transverse colon) operation and afterwards to offer her palliative chemotherapy. After seven cycles of chemotherapy, the patient was re-evaluated by CT scans that revealed an excellent response (> 30 %), but the metastatic liver disease was still considered inoperable. Moreover, with the completion of 12 cycles, the indicated restaging process showed further response. Subsequent to a thorough review by the multidisciplinary team, it was decided to proceed to the ALPPS procedure as a feasible means to perform extensive or bilobar liver resections, combined with a decreased risk of tumor progression in the interim. Conclusions: All in all, ALPPS can offer a feasible but surgically demanding liver-first approach with satisfactory short-term results in selected patients. Larger studies are mandatory to evaluate short- and long-term results of the procedure on survival, morbidity, and mortality.

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Petrou, A., Moris, D., Kountourakis, P., Fard-Aghaie, M., Neofytou, K., Felekouras, E., & Papalampros, A. (2016). The ALPPS procedure as a novel “liver-first” approach in treating liver metastases of colon cancer: The first experience in Greek Cypriot area. World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12957-016-0827-3

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